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Salviati
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quote:We still have to see if our QBs can play Kiffin ball, and that's after we see if they can walk.
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quote:Players in the portal before January 17, can always enroll for the summer or the fall semester.
So what happens if you commit somewhere but miss the day to enroll. What then happens
quote:Someone has moved into the Dad Joke phase of his life. :cheers:
All I know is the name Peter Burns. C'mon, that means get to the doctor quick.
quote:College football viewership grew in the 2025 season compared to the 2024 season, with records set for total time spent watching and strong showings across various networks.quote:The CFB game of the last century, as you put it, did not mature using the current (NIL/portal) model. That posters are incapable of accounting for this betrays a shortsightedness. IOW, you don't even know what you're talking about.
College football was doing fine for about a century before you got interested. It's growing even now
Record Time Spent: The 2025 season saw over 179 billion minutes of viewing across all networks, a 9% increase from 2024, marking a new record for the sport.
More Big Games: There were more games reaching 4 million viewers (70 in 2025 vs. 58 in 2024) and 10 million viewers (13 in 2025 vs. 4 in 2024), showing broad interest.
NIL & Transfer Portal: Big-name transfers continued to drive huge fan interest, turning programs into weekly events.
ESPN Platforms: ESPN's bowl season (non-CFP) saw a 13% increase, with record highs for many games.
In Summary: Despite some fluctuations in the CFP's initial stages, the 2025 college football season was a massive success, setting viewership records and cementing its position as a major entertainment force.
Perhaps you're talking out the side of your neck?
ESPN’s coverage of the 2025-26 Bowl Season delivered substantial year-over-year gains across non-College Football Playoff (CFP) games, highlighted by record highs, multi-year bests and two of the most-watched non-CFP/New Year’s Six bowls in recent years.
Across 33 non-CFP bowls on ESPN networks, average viewership was 3.1 million, up 13 percent year-over-year, marking the highest non-CFP bowl average since the 2015-16 season. Four bowls set all-time audience records, while 10 reached at least a five-year high and eight hit a 10-year high.
The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl (9.1M) and Pop-Tarts Bowl (8.7M) were the two most-watched non-CFP/New Year’s Six bowls since the 2019-20 season. The Citrus Bowl delivered its best audience since the 2019 season, while the Pop-Tarts Bowl posted its best viewership since 1991.
Network Highlights
- ABC delivered its largest non-CFP bowl audience in 12 years, averaging 6.2 million viewers across six games. All six bowls registered multi-year viewership highs and three recorded their highest audiences in at least 10 years (Pop-Tarts Bowl, TaxSlayer Gator Bowl and Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl)
- On ESPN, 26 games averaged 2.4 million viewers. These games represent nine of the top 100 most-watched live events on ESPN since last bowl season (Jan. 4, 2025-Jan. 2, 2026)
Bonus Bowl Season Superlatives
- All-time records: Four bowls established new audience records: Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl (ABC), Bucked Up LA Bowl (ABC), SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (ESPN) and Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl (ESPN)
- Multi-year bests across the slate: 11 bowls registered at least five-year highs and eight reached 10-year highs (including Pop-Tarts, Gator, Celebration, Military, Fenway, Las Vegas, Texas, Duke’s Mayo and Independence)
Bowl-By-Bowl Bests
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: Best since 2019-20
Pop-Tarts Bowl: Best since 1991
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl: Best on record (began 2010 season)
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Best since 2009
Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl: Best since 2021
Rate Bowl: Best since 2011
Bucked Up LA Bowl: Best on record
Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl: Best since 2013
Go Bowling Military Bowl: Best since 2018
Cricket Celebration Bowl: Best since 2022
New Orleans Bowl: Best since 2014
Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl: Best since 2022
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl: UNLV vs. Ohio (began 2014 season)
Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl: Best since 2021
Isleta New Mexico Bowl: Best since 2022
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quote:Who didn't have concerns about Nuss and the offensive line?
Legit question, how did you feel going into this past season?
re: This is a very strange feeling: No stress about LSU football.
Posted by Salviati on 1/13/26 at 12:43 pm to Burt Reynolds
quote:Don't worry. The doctors said that the immense stress on my heart caused by college football will likely shorten my life by several years, so now I'm taking several medications and seeing a therapist to handle the stress.
If you are stressing out about a sports team; you need to reevaluate your life priorities and maybe even seek psychological help
Dumbass.
quote:There is very little about college football from 100 years ago that is the same today. The sport has morphed and changed in every decade. From stadium size, to television, to the amount of money generated by the sport.
If you genuinely believed that college football exists today in the same form as it did 100 years ago, then there would be no point discussing anything with you.
I suspect you actually know better than that. So I will attempt to engage in a real discussion.
There were no 100,000-seat stadiums before the 1950s. Now, there are eight.
Over thirty years ago, Bobby Bowden became the first million-dollar coach. I remember the uproar when Mark Emmert decided to make Nick Saban the third million-dollar coach. Now, nearly every FBS coach makes at least a million dollars, and nine make over ten million dollars per year.
At one time, there was no television coverage, then there was limited television coverage. Now there is almost unlimited television coverage.
College football is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. The amount of money changing hands at every level has grown over the decades.
quote:The title of this thread is: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
The sport has not changed in the sense of refining pass interference or instituting overtime; it has fundamentally changed from an extra-curricular amateur school activity to a professional sports league. And all the pounding and shouting about players getting paid under the table will never change that simple fact; the fact that it was (by necessity) under the table is a qualitative, not quantitative, difference.
Certainly, NIL has become a big factor for most players. But make no mistake, players have been choosing which school to attend by the size of the bag for decades.
Bear Bryant used to buy all of the talent until the NCAA limited the number of scholarships. Saban used to have barbershops in Louisiana to pay for players. Chargers and the like have changed the mind of many a young player. McDonald's bags can get players to choose to play in Knoxville. Five-star players can even be bought to play in Oxford.
Over a decade ago, players were openly announcing that they were not going to college to play school.
I won't begin to discuss how many players came to LSU when they're only there for the money, not LSU.
quote:And there it is again. Things change. That's the one constant of life.
I just do not agree with the notion of, "this is the game, you have to adapt". If people don't like minor leage pro-football, there is no reason for them to pretend to like it just because LSU sponsors a team. If LSU sponsored a second-rate professional ballet troop, I probably wouldn't be emotionally invested in that, either. Would you?
College football has changed in many ways over the decades.
Adapt or don't adapt. Love it, like it, or leave it.
This is a very strange feeling: No stress about LSU football.
Posted by Salviati on 1/13/26 at 10:20 am
I knew that it took time for Kiffin to work his voodoo portal magic. Every year at Ole Miss, he was deliberate in his selections. Never hurried.
I figured that good things would happen if we waited.
We have two terrific QBs. We have talent stacked on stacks at all of the skill positions.
We made some terrific choices on defense. Three OL in the barn with more on the way.
I'm not hitting the refresh button. I'm not worried.
Haven't had this feeling for a long time.
Life is good.
I figured that good things would happen if we waited.
We have two terrific QBs. We have talent stacked on stacks at all of the skill positions.
We made some terrific choices on defense. Three OL in the barn with more on the way.
I'm not hitting the refresh button. I'm not worried.
Haven't had this feeling for a long time.
Life is good.
quote:You are not compelled to love college football. There is no law, regulation, requirement, or social moral compelling you to love college football.
That seems entirely reasonable for the school. But the OP was talking about the fans. And there seems to be a strange notion on message boards like this that we are somehow compelled or obligated to love whatever the NCAA tells us to love. Not caring about a "sport" is still an option. Most of us are LSU fans because we came to love college football and LSU is our team. But if that sport -- the sport we fell in love with -- no longer exists, why would we feel compelled to invest our time, energy, emotion and -- especially -- money into whatever bastardized creation they put on display?
Many people on here comment extesively about how they don't care about womens basketball, or softball, or tennis, or swimming & diving, or some other LSU sports. Presumably, that is because they simply aren't invested in those sports because those sports don't appeal to them. If what happens on Saturday nights in the fall isn't the sport that we grew up loving, who is to say that it necessarily has to appeal to us? If you don't care about LSU's Gymnastics team, why should the OP care about LSU's Minor League NFL team? I don't particularly care about the sport of baseball, but I love LSU baseball solely and specifically because it is LSU athletes competing for LSU. The same has always been true for LSU Football as well. The more that reality diminishes, the more that emotion investment is uncertain. And that is 100% not a diminution of my (or anyone else's) love or commitment to LSU's College Football team, it is only a consequence of LSU (along with the rest of the NCAA) abandoning College Football as a sport.
College Football is 100% dying, especially at the "Major" level like LSU. Whether any particular fan of College Football feels an emotional attachment to the new sport being introduced is completely up to them. Passing on that is no different than anyone else passing on any other LSU endeavor. Would you pay thousands of dollars for season tickets to watch LSU's groundskeeping staff do their job? No? Then why would you pay that to watch some other LSU employee doing their job? If it's because you find professional football entertaining, I've got news for you: there's MUCH better professional football happening every Sunday throughout football season (and even longer, for now). Maybe you love even more professional football, and if so that's great for you. But the history of past minor leagues of pro football suggests that most people don't share that love; at least, not enough to make such a league viable.
You are free. Whatever ties you feel bind you to college football are hereby torn asunder. You're welcome.
Here's the thing about this thread and all of the other threads like this that have been started by the OP and others.
The vast majority of us are tired of hearing about it. Quit the CONSTANT bitching. We get it. You're tired of football players playing for money.
It's been going on for over 100 years! Do you know why LSU did not win the national championship in 1908 even though they were 10-0 and only had ONE touchdown scored against them? The team was accused of paying its players.
If you don't like college football, fine. Leave and take your keyboard with you. College football was doing fine for about a century before you got interested. It's growing even now. It will be fine if you stop watching. Just like real professional football.
re: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted by Salviati on 1/13/26 at 7:26 am to homemadeshine
Don't you ever get tired of creating these crappy posts?
Do you like cheering for a new team every year?
College football gains new fans every year. Young kids start watching for the first time. College kids start enjoying football where there are going to school. New people tune into college football.
New fans every year.
College football loses old fans every year. Peoples' lives get busier with new priorities. Money gets spent on more pressing issues. Age gets all of us.
Lose fans every year.
Viewership is up. Attendance is up. YOU may not be watching it as much. YOU may have lost some interest as you age. That's life.
College football is doing fine. It did fine before you started cheering, and it will do fine after you leave.
Do you like cheering for a new team every year?
College football gains new fans every year. Young kids start watching for the first time. College kids start enjoying football where there are going to school. New people tune into college football.
New fans every year.
College football loses old fans every year. Peoples' lives get busier with new priorities. Money gets spent on more pressing issues. Age gets all of us.
Lose fans every year.
Viewership is up. Attendance is up. YOU may not be watching it as much. YOU may have lost some interest as you age. That's life.
College football is doing fine. It did fine before you started cheering, and it will do fine after you leave.
Lisp Frank.
Somewhere dark and lonely, PhillyTiger is wailing and gnashing his teeth.
quote:It appears from the article that the medicine does not put the brain to sleep, it merely allows the brain to do what it does naturally, which is sleep. The efficacy comes from the medicine's ability to wake up the brain stem while not waking up the brain.
Pretty obvious question i guess- but would this pill theoretically help those of us who are just plain old insomniacs, without apnea ? Why or why not ?
Waking up the brain stem prevents full muscle relaxation in the throat. The full muscle relaxation is what cuts off airflow. The airflow cutoff causes interruptions in sleep, snoring, gasping, and other more serious health problems.
quote:Perhaps it means he is waiting for Leavitt (and perhaps Longstreet) to decide where he is going.
What does this mean aren't we waiting for him?
re: Nobody talking about the WBB unis?
Posted by Salviati on 1/11/26 at 3:34 pm to Smokin Joe Dumas
quote:Nobody talking about the wbb 10+ point lead over the #2 team in the nation?
Those are nice! If men don’t have them, they should
Those are nice! If men don’t have them, they should
re: What do you think the QB recruiting plan will be?
Posted by Salviati on 1/11/26 at 2:50 pm to ActusHumanus
quote:Just so it's clear.
The Spring portal is gone. Only grad transfers can move in the Spring. I feel like you get one of the three as your starter, you bring in a project from a smaller school (Does Clark qualify here?), and then try to land a grad after Spring.
Thoughts? Just a discussion.
LSU can sign any Division 1 player that is currently in the portal up through fall enrollment 2026. Similarly, LSU can sign any D1 player who enters the portal on or before January 16, up through fall enrollment 2026.
Lower divisions have their own rules, but generally, LSU can sign a D2 player at least through mid-June.
re: If we don’t get Will Wade
Posted by Salviati on 1/10/26 at 4:12 pm to StadiumDormNEZ72
quote:Yes.quote:There’s a “certain demographic” that wears this opinion as a badge of honor and dog-whistle code…
I’m cool with basketball sucking if we are good at the other two and id say plenty on here share this opinion lo
It's a moronic opinion considering that basketball usually makes way more money. Moreover, prioritizing basketball over baseball, like LSU always has done and will continue to do, has no negative effect on baseball.
quote:That's an odd melt.
I don’t get these three day visits. If he wants to be here the sign the dam paperwork, if not leave. It’s not that freaking hard.
What's your hurry?
The longer he stays here, the less time he has for somewhere else.
re: Ole Miss OL Ethan Fields in the portal
Posted by Salviati on 1/10/26 at 3:48 pm to Quicksilver
quote:Your point was well made. It's a significant distinction.
I'm not here to hate on the kid, I'm just clarifying for the people excited about this.
quote:It can be tied to performance. You can have incentives for the team reaching the playoffs, bowl games, national championships, etc. You can have incentives for individual achievements like playing time, receiving national awards and honors, etc.
I’m sure there are loopholes, but remember that NIL is for name, image and likeness. It can’t be tied to pay to play.
re: Philly is right on Leavitt
Posted by Salviati on 1/10/26 at 10:00 am to Ltown_tiger
quote:You'd lose all credibility and good faith. Your ability to recruit would plummet.
I would think it would be to get other QB’s to commit. These other QB’s Kiffin is after may say frick that I’m not going to LSU to sit the bench behind Leavitt.
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